Taken

Examples

• He would have taken it before now, I believe, but for Fledgeby. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Having, then, taken my drop (bless you! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Those were the exact words she used--taken down in my diary the moment I got home. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I will go and select one before the choice animals are all taken. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She recognised him; she greeted him, and yet she was flutteredsurprised, taken unawares. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He spoke of the state of England; the necessary measures to be taken to ensure its security, and confirm its prosperity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow; yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Soon after my arrival in the hovel, I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Don't say so, Vincy, said the mother, with a quivering lip, if you don't want him to be taken from me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Franklin's letter I sent to him in the library--into which refuge his driftings had now taken him for the second time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There were woods that had been taken quickly and not smashed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Somebody must find out wot's been done at the office,' said Mr. Sikes in a much lower tone than he had taken since he came in. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I have taken the house now: everything else can soon be got ready--can it not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Take at one dose at 10 o’clock in the morning, having eaten no breakfast and having taken a full dose of Rochelle salts the previous night. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Fred, you know, has taken his degree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And he too waited in the magical steadfastness of suspense, for her to take this knowledge of him as he had taken it of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If after that you are taken, you will then be a prize; but now you are only a stranger, and have a stranger's right to safety and protection. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Here the official time was taken by officers of the Signal Corps. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If he hasn't peached, and is committed, there's no fear till he comes out again,' said Mr. Sikes, 'and then he must be taken care on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All the bridges over these had been destroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I'm sorry to have taken such a long time. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There's twice as much in the newspaper, since I've taken to this chair, as there used to be. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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